{"id":114767,"date":"2021-07-04T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114767"},"modified":"2021-07-03T17:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T21:52:19","slug":"independence-day-open-thread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114767","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_115129\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115129\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115129\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Veterans-Canteen-Service-celebrate-Independence-Day.jpg?resize=323%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Veterans-Canteen-Service-celebrate-Independence-Day.jpg?resize=323%2C333&amp;ssl=1 323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Veterans-Canteen-Service-celebrate-Independence-Day.jpg?resize=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Veterans-Canteen-Service-celebrate-Independence-Day.jpg?w=578&amp;ssl=1 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-115129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Photo from Veterans Canteen Service message.<\/span><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DHLlwiLebkc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Happy Independence Day!<\/span><\/strong> The Declaration of Independence is worth the read, in its entirety. Thirteen British colonial provinces made a joint statement declaring themselves free and independent states on equal footing to the state of Great Britain. July 4 subsequently became the birthday of the United States. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day! The Declaration of Independence is worth the read, in its entirety. Thirteen British colonial provinces made a joint statement declaring themselves free and independent states on equal footing to the state of Great Britain. July 4 subsequently became the birthday of the United States. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-tR5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}